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Re: Rollover TOC displays topics in Flare webhelp?

So hundreds of users would need to be instructed in how to change the
default configuration? That's not the sort of thing I would normally
advise.

I have a Windows 7 tablet and haven't encountered a setting to do that
sort of thing. However, I confess I haven't looked for it either... I
just plug in a mouse. If you know how to do that in Android, I'd like to
know about it.

Windows shouldn't care whether the cursor is being moved by a
touchscreen, touchpad, or mouse. If hovering over a link activates it,
you should be able to disable that somewhere and get standard popup
behavior.

There's nothing to detect the position of your finger unless you're touching
the screen and if your finger is touching the screen when you stop on a link
it'll actuate the link. Rollovers (as far as I understand the term) are
hover-sensitive. When the mouse cursor is paused over them, something
happens. Like tooltips or info text on some web page forms.